Tuesday, January 29, 2013

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Michael Fischkelta, 8, lies on his cot with his mother, Jenifer Wilson, in a Red Cross evacuation shelter set up in the gymnasium of Toms River High School on Monday, November 5, in Toms River, New Jersey. This shelter has been open since one day before Superstorm Sandy landed in New Jersey, but evacuees will be moved to new evacuation centers sometime this week before the high school reopens for classes on Thursday. View photos of the recovery efforts in New York.
A woman fills out an early voting ballot on Sunday, November 4, in Jersey City, New Jersey. Gov. Chris Christy ordered early voting stations to stay open through the weekend in an effort to get people to vote despite the damage done by Superstorm airplane tickets and discount Sandy.
airplane tickets and discount Crowds wait for free gas on Saturday, November 3, at the Bedford Avenue Armory in Brooklyn, New York. The East Coast is recovering from floods, fires and power outages brought on by Superstorm Sandy.
A house sits devastated by Superstorm Sandy on Friday, airplane tickets and discount November 2, in Union Beach, New Jersey. The cost of the storm s damage in the U.S. is estimated at between $30 billion airplane tickets and discount and $50 billion, according to disaster modeling firm Eqecat.
Park Choul works by flashlight in his deli in New York s East Village on Thursday, November 1. More than 3.3 million customers remained without electricity in 15 states and the District of Columbia four days after Sandy barreled ashore.
airplane tickets and discount The inside of a gas pump is exposed at a closed station that was recently under floodwater on Thursday, November 1, in Hoboken, New Jersey. Superstorm Sandy, which made landfall along the New Jersey shore, has left the state with a fuel shortage due to logistical problems and power failures.
Bridget airplane tickets and discount De La Torre holds her daughter Neve, 3, as daughter Paz sits nearby while they rest and charge devices on Thursday at a shelter for those affected by Superstorm Sandy at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Hoboken, New Jersey. Bridget s family has no electricity or hot water, and their car was destroyed by flooding.
Waves break in front of an amusement park destroyed by Superstorm Sandy on Wednesday, October 31, in Seaside airplane tickets and discount Heights, New Jersey. At least 56 people airplane tickets and discount were killed in the storm. New Jersey suffered massive damage and power outages.
Buildings on the shoreline are pictured from Air Force One as it prepares to land in Atlantic City, New Jersey, carrying President Barack Obama, who visited airplane tickets and discount areas hardest hit by the unprecedented storm.
Residents in the Rockaway section of Queens, New York, wait to charge their phones at a government airplane tickets and discount generator. Kennedy International Airport in New York and Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey resumed operations on limited schedules Wednesday, and the New York Stock Exchange commenced trading after being closed for two days.
Motorists drive through standing water in Hoboken, New Jersey. Known as the Mile Square City, the low-lying neighborhoods suffered deep flooding resulting from the storm surge associated with Hurricane Sandy.
A man charges his cellphone at a home that still has power in Hoboken, New Jersey, airplane tickets and discount on Wednesday, October 31. As of Wednesday afternoon, airplane tickets and discount more than 2 million customers in New Jersey were without power.
CNN iReporter Jordan Shapiro captured this view of the Williamsburg Bridge in New York at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, October 30. Half of the bridge and Brooklyn is lit, while the Manhattan side and the surrounding part of the island remain shrouded in darkness.
My message to the federal government: no bureaucracy, no red tape, get resources where they re needed as fast as possible, as hard as possible, and for the duration, Obama said in Washington Tuesday. Both Obama and Republican presidential candidate airplane tickets and discount Mitt Romney canceled campaign events.
Rain is forecast to move in early Wednesday and will gradually become heavier, according to CNN meteorologists . As the day goes on, the weather will get worse, with daytime temperatures hovering in the 40s. At night it could get down to the 20s bad news for the 127,000 customers who are still without power, according to Con Edison. Working round the clock, the company said Tuesday that more than 846,000 customers who lost power 87% have it again.
A nor easter is a strong low pressure system with powerful northeasterly winds coming from the ocean ahead of a storm. Predicted 60-mph gusts could hurt the already ravaged Jersey Shore . Coastal flooding and beach erosion are possible.
A dump truck empties trash collected from homes damaged by Superstorm Sandy on Saturday, November 3, in the Midland Beach neighborhood of Staten Island, New York. New York is trying airplane tickets and discount to clean up and resume normal activities days after the storm hit. View photos of New York preparing for Sandy.
A police officer directs passengers waiting on Thursday to board city buses into Manhattan at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. About 4,000 buses are replacing the subway lines still closed by Superstorm Sandy damage.
Thousands of people wait to board city buses into Manhattan, and some subway lines remain underwater. Getting water out of the tunnels is one of the main orders of business right now, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday.
A police officer checks cars entering the Brooklyn Queens airplane tickets and discount Expressway to confirm that they have three occupants before allowing them to cross into Manhattan on Thursday. Limited public transit has returned to New York, and most major bridges have reopened. airplane tickets and discount However, vehicles must have three occupants to pass.
Parts of lower Manhattan are still without electricty on Thursday. Superstorm airplane tickets and discount Sandy, which made landfall along the New Jersey shore on Monday, October 29, left much of the Eastern Seaboard without power, including much of Manhattan south of 34th Street.
CNN iReporter Jordan Shapiro captured this view of the Williamsburg Bridge in New York at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, October 30. Half of the bridge and Brooklyn is lit, while the Manhattan side and the surrounding airplane tickets and discount part of the island remain shrouded in darkness.
Much of the New York City skyline sits in darkness Tuesday airplane tickets and discount evening after damage from Superstorm Sandy knocked out power. About 6.9 million customers are without power in 15 states and the District airplane tickets and discount of Columbia, airplane tickets and discount according to figures compiled by CNN from power companies.
To help with such concerns, Cuomo signed an order Monday allowing affidavit voting. Basically, what that means is that voters registered in a federally declared disaster county can vote at any poll site in the state by signing an affidavit.
Voters in some New York counties may get an extra day to cast ballots if disruptions caused by Sandy prevent enough citizens from voting, a state official said Sunday. New Jersey announced that residents displaced by Sandy can vote in Tuesday s elections via e-mail or fax , the first time civilians in the state have been allowed to vote remotely.
Some 94% of schools in New York City were open Monday, according to the mayor, and the subway system is back in operation. New York officials said they are investigating reports airplane tickets and discount of price gouging after receiving hundreds of complaints from consumers airplane tickets and discount who say business owners have jacked airplane tickets and discount up prices on hotel rooms, generators, food and water.
What am I supposed to do right now? How do I deal with that? she said. I don t have electricity, so I cannot pump the water. It is just sitting there. Whether someone takes what we have I have no control over that. I have no control over any of it.
While Hanley struggles with the bureaucracy of post-disaster life, many others are receiving help from the Red Cross, which has opened 190 shelters along the Eastern Seaboard. The organization has hundreds of disaster workers on standby with emergency supplies.
Another Staten Islander, Tara Saylor, airplane tickets and discount spent her weekend volunteering to hand out clothing and food. The 25-year-old works at a Manhattan interior design showroom. She and her home on a hill in St. George escaped Sandy s wrath.
I was almost crying when people are thanking me, she said. (They were) throwing their family photos out in the middle of the street. It s a humbling experience. You really begin to appreciate what you have.
There s really no amount of blankets that can stop you from being cold in 30-degree weather, the 28-year-old said. We feel a little homeless right now. We have our house, but we can t really use it.
To the southwest in Red Bank, New Jersey, about a 90-minute drive from Floral Park, Chris Ippolito has been luckier than many folks. So far, he s only had to wrestle with sporadic power outages. But his mother-in-law s home was severely flooded.

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